Improve your tweets thanks to Twitter Cards

LikeFacebook viahis now famousOpenGraph,TwitterCardscanenrich andenhance yourcontent when it issharedon Twitter.Thiscontributes todramatically increase the trafficto your site butalso the number ofsharing of your contentand thusimproveyour SEO.

There are several possible displays for your cards, depending on the type of content you have.

Summary: This is the default summary card with the title of your page, description, and possibly the associated thumbnail.

Summary Large Image: This is the same card, except that the image is highlighted.

Photo: Displays a picture in a tweet that can be seen in the Twitter photo viewer.

Gallery: Displays several pictures from your gallery in a tweet (I can already see some of you smiling)

Product: Products in your shop highlighted on Twitter? This is what allows this card

Player: Your videos can be played directly in Twitter with this card

As you can see, the possibilities of interaction with your site on WMaker are large! From the online store to the Web TV through the professional photographers, there's something for everyone!

Example of Twitter Card

Twitter card at WMaker

We decided to proceed in different steps for the implementation of Twitter Cards in your favorite CMS. The first one is to provide the cards wherever the Facebook OpenGraph exists ie:

Homepage

Article page

Calendar

Classified ads

Thisis now done,each of those pageshas atags that enabletobenefit fromLargeImageSummarycard.Thisis the displaythat from our point of view is the best tohelp promotingyour site and giveyourfollowers towantto know more, and why notbecome an ambassadorof your site.

The secondstep will be the same for Facebookand Twitterand expandthetagsof the twoplatformsto other sections ofyour site toenable you togo furtherin terms ofpromoting your sitewithtweetsenriched andadapted totargeted content(eg:acardGalleryforyour photo albumsor aPlayercard for yourvideos)!

How to activate this service?

We did most of the work for you, but you still have to make your contribution if you want Twitter Cards to work properly.

Currently, this service must be activated manually for your domain and approved by Twitter. This process takes about a week to two weeks according to them.

Close the ibox that automatically opens and click on Validate & Apply tab then enter the address of your website or any article of your site. Therefore you will be able to see what a tweet referring to this page will look like.

Then click on Request Approval, fill in the form, then send it to twitter. Voilà! it's done.